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The document provides instructions for a homework assignment analyzing compressive strength test results from 25 concrete samples. Students are asked to: 1) construct a histogram and frequency distribution using 500 psi intervals, 2) calculate the percentage of samples below 5,000 psi using a cumulative frequency distribution, and 3) calculate the mean and standard deviation of the sample data.

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Statistics Example

The document provides instructions for a homework assignment analyzing compressive strength test results from 25 concrete samples. Students are asked to: 1) construct a histogram and frequency distribution using 500 psi intervals, 2) calculate the percentage of samples below 5,000 psi using a cumulative frequency distribution, and 3) calculate the mean and standard deviation of the sample data.

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Homework 1 Handout

CE 311S Probability & Statistics for Civil Engineers


Assigned: Friday January 23, 2015
Due: Friday January 30, 2015
Data Reduction Problem
The table below contains results from compressive strength tests (in units of pounds per square inch, psi)
for samples of concrete that were delivered to a job site. Perform the following analyses of these data:
1. Construct a histogram and frequency distribution for these data. Use 500 psi intervals in your plots.
2. Construct a cumulative frequency distribution using a 500 psi interval. The structural engineer specified
that the concrete have a compressive strength of 5,000 psi. What is the percentage of samples with a
yield strength less than 5,000 psi?
3. Calculate the mean and sample standard deviation.
Sample No.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25

Measured Compressive Strength (psi)


4177
4844
5265
4206
5482
5830
4075
5990
4844
3655
5961
5120
4104
5120
3539
5700
5888
5120
6701
6207
7136
6788
6628
7962
5062

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